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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (pur-VEHZ' moo-SHAH'-ruhv) says al-Qaida needs to be eliminated from the country by force, but dealing with the Taliban requires a military, political and socio-economic approach.
Pakistan's prime minister on Wednesday effectively ruled out bringing treason charges against the country's former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf.
Police say if Pakistan's former president returns to the country, he could be arrested for ordering the arrest of judges while he was in power.
Pakistan's top court on Thursday turned down a request to launch a treason case against ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf, while the former president failed to show up and explain his 2007 imposition of emergency rule for a second day of hearings.
Predictions that Pervez Musharraf will have to flee Pakistan to escape treason charges have died along with the coalition that drove him from the presidency.
Ousted from Pakistan's presidency, Pervez Musharraf has been unwinding with friends and admirers and on the tennis court. He's building a roomy farmhouse on the edge of the capital.
Running for president, George W. Bush couldn't name the new leader of Pakistan. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, Pervez Musharraf became a crucial but ultimately frustrating ally in the war against Islamic extremists.
Pervez Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant nation into the U.S.-led war on terror — an alliance that won him plaudits in the West but fueled anger at home.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, India misses you.
Key dates from Pervez Musharraf's tenure as army chief and Pakistani president.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf vowed Saturday to resist pressure for him to resign but suggested he might quit if Parliament reduces him to a toothless figurehead.
For eight years President Pervez Musharraf dominated Pakistan and charmed the West by presenting himself as a straight-talking ally in the war on terror.
President Pervez Musharraf is running out of options. Legal complexities may save him in the short-term, but few expect him to hold on for long, raising fresh uncertainty over Pakistan's support for the aggressive U.S. approach to fighting radical Islamic groups.
President Pervez Musharraf is running out of options. Legal complexities may save him in the short-term, but few expect him to hold on for long, raising fresh uncertainty over Pakistan's support for the U.S.-led war with radical Islamic groups.
President Pervez Musharraf's spokesman on Monday dismissed a suggestion from three U.S. senators that the embattled leader make a "graceful exit" from power his opponents' victory in Pakistan's elections.
Pervez Musharraf has survived combat as a career soldier and assassination attempts as president. Now the will of his own people has pushed him to the precipice.
Public support for President Pervez Musharraf has plunged to an all-time low and opposition parties appear poised to score a landslide victory in next week's parliamentary elections, a U.S.-funded group said in a report released Monday.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf promised Thursday that national elections scheduled for next month would be "free, fair and transparent," dismissing fraud concerns and brushing off criticism over his dismissal of the Supreme Court chief justice.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told the World Economic Forum Thursday that his country must hold "free, fair and transparent" elections next month as part of a three-part plan to stabilize Pakistan.
Pervez Musharraf says he still gets the question a lot: When will Osama bin Laden and his top deputy be caught? The Pakistani president insists it's more important for his 100,000 troops on the Afghan border to root out the Taliban than search for al-Qaida leaders.
President Pervez Musharraf promised Monday that Pakistan will hold fair elections next month and urged the West to be more patient with his nation's efforts to achieve higher standards of human rights.
President Pervez Musharraf warned that U.S. troops would be regarded as invaders if they crossed into Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan in the hunt for al-Qaida or Taliban militants, according to an interview published Friday.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf blamed Benazir Bhutto for her own death, saying in an interview broadcast Sunday she should not have poked her head out of her vehicle's sunroof while leaving the rally where she was assassinated.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that he had requested a team of investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard to assist in the investigation into the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
The assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has pitched Pakistan into a political freefall and raised fears that increasingly bitter divisions in the society are turning the country into another Iraq.
DAWN.COM | Letters to the Editor | Jinnah sidelinedLIAQUAT Merchant in a letter to Dawn (Nov 28) asked a question: 'Is Jinnah being sidelined?'
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Jailed militantâ��s hoax calls drove India, Pakistan to brink of warISLAMABAD: Omar Saeed Sheikh, a detained Pakistani militant, had made hoax calls to President Asif Ali Zardari and the Chief of Army Staff, Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, in a bid to heighten Pakistan-India tensions after last year's terrorist attacks on Mumbai, investigators have t …
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | The great denialAn opinion piece from October 15th, earlier this year.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | TV accused of fanning political instabilityKARACHI: Pakistan's television networks are heaping political pressure on an increasingly unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari with critical and influential programming that offers a voice to the poor. In the decade since military ruler Pervez Musharraf issued licences and so …
BBC News - Ahmed Rashid: Pakistan conspiracy theories stifle debateGuest columnist Ahmed Rashid on how the real problems facing Pakistan are being sidelined by a surge of conspiracy theories Switch on any of the dozens of satellite news channels now available in Pakistan.
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Smokers� Corner: Boxing the faithOnce upon a time, charity boxes of so-called Islamic welfare organisations were a ubiquitous sight at shops in our cities. These boxes were claimed to have been put there by the shopkeepers and Islamic welfare groups to raise money for the building of mosques and madressahs.
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Smokers� Corner: Nauseous mumblingsRECENTLY I was fortunate enough to be a part of an excellent ten-minute news video prepared by the New York Times' reporter, Adam Ellick. Tastefully called 'Tuning out the Taliban,' the video has created the right buzz amongst young middle-class Pakistanis.
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Why not a civilian head of ISI?By Kamran Shafi Tuesday, 17 Nov, 2009
Road To Self Restruction There seems to be no end to unpleasant surprises. This is an excerpt from an article in The News today by Mr. Asif Ezdi:
DAWN.COM | World | Musharraf accused of letting terrorism wound festerPARIS: Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan was among Al Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years of efforts against terrorism.
Israel's Role In Destabilizing PakistanWhen waging war "by way of deception," the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe.
Riding the StormTo say that Pakistan is in a clutch would still be an understatement.
Musharraf faces UN probe over Bhutto killingA team invetigationg the December 14 slaying of twice-premier Benazir Bhutto has made a formal request to interview former dicator General Pervez Musharraf. Pakistani generals have a track record of pysically annihilating civilian leaders and prior to her killing Bhutto had on r …
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Karachi bombing accused acquittedA Pakistani court has acquitted a man sentenced to death in the June 2002 Sheraton hotel bombing which killed 11 French engineers in Karachi.
FRONTLINE/WORLD . Pakistan - On a Razor's Edge . VOICES FROM THE WHIRLWIND: Assessing Musharraf's Predicament - Lieutenant General Hamid Gul: Defender of Islam | PBSAgain, an old interview back in 2004 with PBS. Lt.Hamid Gul was the head of the ISI pre-9/11 and shortly after. Don't know whether he was still head in 2004. I consider him a closet Taliban, always have. But his beliefs got reinforced thanks to the Iraq debacle.
FRONTLINE/WORLD . Pakistan - On a Razor's Edge . VOICES FROM THE WHIRLWIND: Assessing Musharraf's Predicament - "Shahzad": An Underground Militant | PBSConsidering all the chaos happening in Pakistan, I thought I'd dig into the recent past and see how it was headed. Here's an interview with a Kashmiri militant in 2004 with PBS. Some interesting opinions and comments. How much is truth, how much is fiction...
The first-ever Baluch protest in Houston on Saturday morning caught the attention of the local media as the protesters carried placards of the burning Twin Towers after the 911 attacks that read, "Paki Army did this."
A former president of the largest Sindhi organzation in the United States and Canada has thrown his weight behind a protest organized by the pro-independence American Friends of Baluchistan in Houston, Texas, on Saturday morning against a Pakistani coup plotter.
Baluch and Sindhis are joining hands to protest against Pakistan military atrocities and state terrorism in Baluchistan when former coup leader General Pervez Musharraf comes to speak at an event in Houston on Saturday morning.
Court directs police to lodge murder case against MusharrafIn a rare move, the Baluchistan High Court in Quetta has directed police in Dera Bugti to issue a First Information Report in the murder of former governor and chief minister of Baluchistan, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, 80.
Member of a DC-based Baluch group has accused former dictator and coup leader General Pervez Musharraf for being responsible for killing civilian leaders in Pakistan.
US funds were diverted to strengthen defence against India: MusharrafISLAMABAD: Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that military aid provided by the US to Pakistan for the war against terror during his tenure had been used to strengthen defences against India, the first such admission by any top Pakistani leader
A Washington-DC based organization has deplored the Stevenson University invitation to Pakistan's former military despot General Pervez Musharraf and promised a protest against his presence at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore at the end of the month.
Balochistan observes strike on Bugti death anniversaryPeople die by various causes but here we are looking at a different picture that has the negative and postive blended as one. What was General Musharraf''s justification of killing him? What did Musharraf achieve in the greater perspective to the national unity.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Profile: Zulfiqar MehsudProfile of Zulfiqar Mehsud, aka Hakimullah/Hakumullah Mehsud. He has been announced as the new Pakistani Taliban leader by them after days of uncertainty and reported militant infighting after Beitullah Mehsud's death.
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